welcome, o clifton-the-well-traveled.
glad to have you here!
~amy

Welcome Welcome

Hello Clifton,
I had been reading your Mom's book "The Guernica Generation" as part of my interest in Basque culture and due to our common surname, however, I was wondering an article I encountered through my use of Google also applied to your Mom;
(if this is someone else or bogus, I apologize - and please disregard)

* In California, Dorothy Legarreta, who had worked on the Manhattan Project as a laboratory technician, organizes the National Association of Radiation Survivors (NARS) and starts to write a book about human experimentation. In 1982, while examining the papers of Joseph Hamilton -- the scientist in charge of radiation experiments at the University of California -- at the library of the University of California at Berkeley, she comes across a 1950 memo written to Shields Warren, then director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of biology and medicine. The memo advised that large primates -- chimpanzees, for example -- be substituted for humans in the planned studies on radiation's cognitive effects (the very same program of experimentation that Dr. Saenger was to execute). The use of humans, Hamilton wrote, might leave the AEC open "to considerable criticism," since the experiments as proposed had "a little of the Buchenwald touch."

After Legarreta finds the so-called Buchenwald memo, Hamilton's papers are removed from public access by University of California administrators. Soon after this, Legarreta files a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Energy, asking for all documents concerning experiments in which humans were intentionally exposed to radioactive materials through injection or ingestion. Later that year, NARS receives a two-foot-high carton of documents in response -- documents that, for the first time, expose the widespread human experimentation program of the U.S. government.

Just wanted to say Welcome.

Kaixo!

Hello everyone, I'm glad to join this tribe, I think I already know a couple of you (isn't that right Benoit?).

Gora Euskal Herria!

Why, hello! glad to see more people joining this tribe over time. There seems to be a lot of Basque in SF, or even California. i am sure there is a reason for this, but it's weird. i have yet to knowingly meet a Basque up here in Canada.i am very close to Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River, where the Basque used to cod fish centuries before. there are a couple of ports/islands named after them in the river mouth, and they even settled here long enough to have a linguistic influence on the Huron Nation long before Columbus felt the travelling itch. but yet, no Basques as far as i know. but be sure of this: if i find one.. i will send him to this online tribe! welcome friend!

I'm new to this tribe, and tribes in general. I hope to get to know you guys!

Thank you!

Congratulations!(Zorionak)
Keep on p`reserving your roots, it is easyer to go know where you go if you where you come from. Don't you think?

I have been in the tribe for quite awhile...but haven't been on for probably almost a year! I also want to say hello to those of who are newer to the tribe!

My name is Lara and I am Cliftons' daughter. I would love to learn to speak Basque, not an easy language to learn since they don't exactly have programs you can buy at Best Buy or many fluent people in Central Texas to teach me! Any suggestions??